Liuvigild, as king of the Visigoths, has…

Maurice rejects a peace proposal of the Persians in exchange for renewed payments in gold in spring 586.

Kardarigan attacks the army of Philippicus at Solachon in summer 586, commanding the central division of the Persian army in person.

The battle ends in a heavy defeat, and although Kardarigan himself escapes, the survivors of his army suffer greatly because of his decision to destroy his army's water supplies before the battle, in an attempt to harden his men's resolve.

In addition, the surviving Persians are refused entry into Dara since, according to Simocatta, Persian custom forbade entrance to fugitives.

Simocatta also narrates that many Persians died of thirst or from water poisoning when they drank too much water from wells after their ordeal.

Nevertheless, while Philippicus proceeds to attack the fortress of Chlomaron, Kardarigan manages to assemble an improvised force, mostly composed of peasant levies.

He then marches to Chlomaron and unites his army with its defenders, forcing the imperial general to raise the siege.

Kardarigan thus escapes, although his men suffer further casualties in the process, up to a thousand according to Simocatta, from imperial patrols.

The Avars besiege Thessalonica, the second city of the Empire, in 586.

Emperor Wen summons Emperor Jing to Daxing to visit him in 587.

Emperor Jing leads a train of some 200 officials, but as he is departing Jiangling, the people of Jiangling, believing that he will be detained and not be able to return, weep bitterly.

Emperor Wen, claiming that he fears for Jiangling's safety in Emperor Jing's absence, sends his general Cui Hongdu, the Duke of Wuxiang, to Jiangling.

When Cui arrives in the nearby Ruo Province (roughly modern Yichang, Hubei), Emperor Jing's uncle Xiao Yan and brother Xiao Huan, suspicious that Cui is instead planning to attack, send the official Shen Jungong (uncle of Chen Shubao's Empress Shen Wuhua) to Chen Huiji, offering to surrender.

Chen Huiji quickly arrives at Jiangling, and Xiao Yan and Xiao Huan lead the people of Jiangling in leaving the city and fleeing into Chen territory.

When Emperor Wen hears of this, he issues an edict abolishing Liang.

He sends his official Gao Jiong to Jiangling to pacify the people who remain and to post guards to tend to the tombs of Emperor Ming and Emperor Ming's father Emperor Xuan.

The former Emperor Jing is created the Duke of Ju.

The Battle of Shigisan, a battle fought in 587 between Soga no Umako and Mononobe no Moriya at the riverside of the Ekagawa river in Kawachi Province, Japan near Mount Shigi, practically exterminates the Mononobe clan, the most powerful opponent of Buddhism.

The Soga clan, which has intermarried with the royal Yamato, had fought the Mononobe and Nakatomi clans over influence in selecting a new successor for the Japanese throne, after emperor Yōmei died.

The Soga favor importing Buddhism from the Asian mainland, described there as the religion of the most civilized.

The Mononobe and Nakatomi hold that Buddhism would be an affront to the gods.

The Soga win the civil war and Sushun, age sixty-six, becomes the thirty-second emperor of Japan.

Both Ishbara and Apa Khagan die in 587, and Ishbara's brother Bagha Qaghan tries to unite the khaganate, but cannot control the western portion, where the ambitious Tardu is acting independently.

Maurice builds more fortifications along the Danube frontier, separating the Empire from the realm of the Avars and Slavs.

Nothing is known of the early life of the imperial general Comentiolus, except that he hailed from Thrace.

He first appeared in 583, as an officer (scribon) in the Excubitores, the imperial bodyguard, when he accompanied an imperial embassy to Bayan I, the khagan of the Avars.

According to the historian Theophylact Simocatta, he enraged the khagan with an outspoken statement, and was briefly imprisoned.

It is likely that the close trust he shares with Maurice dates from the latter's time as commander of the Excubitores, before his ascension to the throne.

Throughout his career, Comentiolus will be loyal to Maurice, and the Emperor will watch over his protégé's career.

The next year, after a truce with the Avars had been arranged, he had been appointed in charge of a brigade (taxiarchia) operating against the Slavic tribes that raided Thrace and had penetrated as far as the Long Walls of Anastasius, Constantinople's outer defensive system.

Comentiolus had defeated them at the river Erginia, near the Long Walls.

As a reward for this success, he had been appointed magister militum praesentalis in 585.

On this occasion, or perhaps a bit later (possibly in 589), Comentiolus had been raised to the supreme title of patricius.

In the summer of 585, he had again defeated a large force of Slavs, and in 586 he had been placed in charge of the war against the Avars, after they broke the treaty.

In 587, Comentiolus assembles a ten thousand-strong army at Anchialus and prepares an ambush for the Avar khagan in the Haemus mountains, but it fails.

Slavic incursions into Laconia beginning in about 587 initiate what will prove to be two centuries of barbarism in southern Greece.

Liuvigild's son Reccared I converts to Catholic Christianity on succeeding his father as king of the Visigoths in 587, leading to some unrest in the kingdom, notably a revolt by the Arian bishop of Mérida, which is put down; he also beats back another Frankish offensive in the north.

Many Visigothic nobles follow his example, but in Septimania (Southern Gaul) are Arian uprisings also.

Reccared I then oversees the Third Council of Toledo in 589, where he announces his faith in the Nicene creed and denounces the Arian.

Adopting the name Flavius, the family name of the Constantinian dynasty, he styles himself as the successor to the Roman emperors.

He bans Jews from slave ownership, intermarriage and holding positions of authority.

He also declares that children of mixed marriages be raised Christian.

Reccared also fights the imperial forces in Hispania Baetica after they begin a new offensive.

The Isola Comacina, a small wooded island of Italy’s Lake Como, is in the late sixth century (around 587) a remaining Roman stronghold under Francio, a subordinate of Narses and his successors; though the surrounding areas are entirely controlled by the Lombards.

The island is besieged for a good deal of time by the Lombards under Authari, who releases Francio to flee back to the capital at Ravenna.

The Lombards find the island to contain "many riches" deposited for safekeeping by local Roman loyalists.